Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Beavis and Butthead of the seventeenth century

"I would love to see this painting up close. What were these women laughing about? Wouldn't you like to ask them? I have a perfect spot in my house for these ladies. Having them there might just help me to lighten up a little. I doubt that there is anything these women couldn't laugh at. They strike me as being a little like the Beavis and Butthead of the seventeenth century...except with a bit more class."(Sept. 26, 2007, Heliotropium)

The deal

Everybody is the Rosa Parks of something—or at least the Michael Phelps, Cap'n Crunch, Dick Cheney, Elmer Fudd, or Paris Hilton of whatever. This blog collects examples of the adaptable idiom "X is the Y of Z", which is a snowclone. Feel free to use these descriptions when discussing your beautiful children, longtime companions, sworn enemies, favorite foods, and elected congress-scum.